Budget Process and Rules

Update: JCT issued a response to the letter confirming the default approach to scoring tax legislation is using a current law baseline as established...

As the House and Senate work to land on a concurrent budget resolution, Congress may consider trying to measure their reconciliation bills relative to...

The debt ceiling was reinstated on January 2, 2025. Lawmakers should lift it as soon as possible rather than relying on extraordinary measures and...

On February 6, Representatives Scott Peters (D-CA) and Bill Huizenga (R-MI), Co-Chairs of the Bipartisan Fiscal Forum, along with Representatives...

Representatives Ed Case (D-HI) and Steve Womack (R-AR) recently reintroduced the Sustainable Budget Act (H.R. 222), which would establish an 18-member...

Some lawmakers are making the case that expiring tax cuts should be considered permanent in order to hide the $3.9 trillion increase in deficits that...

Senators Joe Manchin (I-WV), Mitt Romney (R-UT), Mark Warner (D-VA), and Mike Braun (R-IN) recently introduced the Reassuring Economic Stability In...

Tim Penny is co-chair of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and a former representative from Minnesota and Maya MacGuineas is president of...

On September 20, Representatives Scott Peters (D-CA) and Bill Huizenga (R-MI), Co-Chairs of the Bipartisan Fiscal Forum, reintroduced the Responsible...